Machine for slicing



(No Model.)

0. DE PUY & E. H. BURGHARDT MACHINE FOB. SLIGING APPLES,

I Pafented Jan.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CLARENCE on rUY AND EDWARD H. BURGHARDT, or hooansrna, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR SLlClNG APPLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,835, dated. January2, 1883.

Application filed March 15,1882. (No mod e1.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ULARENOE DEPUY andEDWARD H. BURGHARD'I, of Rochester, Monroe county, New York, haveinvented a certain new and useful Im provementinApple- Slicers; and wedo hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, in which-- Figure l is a front elevation ofthe apparatus. Fig;2 is a side elevation of the knives and follower and connecting parts.Fig. 3 is a diagram showing the operation of the knives and follower.Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views.

Our improvement relates to an apparatus for slicing apples or otherfruits, after they have been pared and cored, by means of a stationaryhopper-shaped setof knives and a follower, which is driven down to forcethe apple along, and also to force the cut slices through the knives.

The invention consist-sin the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In thedrawings, Arepreseuts aframe, bolted fast to a table, B, andhaving at its outer end a vertical plate or standard, 0, slottedlongitudinally, as shown at a. and forming the guide for the follower.

I) is an open-ended hopper, projecting outward at right angles to theback plate, and consisting of a series ofstationa-ry knives, b bb,arrangediu V form, one above the other, and attached at their ends tothe edge of the back plate, (J, and a rib, 0, by means of screws d d, orother suitable means. The knives are thus stiff and fixed, leavingspaces between them for the passage of the slices, and the hopper, beingopen-ended and open-topped, allowsthe apples to be insertedhorizontally, by which means they can be adjusted or placed in properposition for the cut to he made crosswise, or at right angles to thecore-passage, which cannot as readily be done where the apple isinserted downward into the hopper.

E is the follower, consisting of a block of wood or metal sliding up anddown on the back plate, and provided with a series of slits or kerfs, gg, coinciding in vertical line with the knives, and graduated in length,so as to pass over and embrace the knives as the follower is forceddown,and allow the lower end of the latter to pass below the lowerknife.

G is a T-shaped slide attached to the back of the follower and restingin the slot a.

H is a pitman,jointecl at one end to the slide and at the other to alever, I, which latter is pivoted at the outer end to a fulcrum, It. Bymoving the lever up and down the follower will be correspondingly raisedand lowered. Any other suitable means maybe used to operate thefollower. cave on the under side to fit the curvature of the apple.

m mm m are four metallic guides, placed one at each corner of thehopper, connecting the first and second knives, as shown in Figs. 3 and4. The end of the follower striking these guides is exactly centered, sothat the slits will strike over the knives. If they were not used, aslight viberation might cause the end of the follower to strike theknives and cause breakage or other injury.

In operation the apples are placed one by one into the open end of thehopper, with the core-passage standing horizontally to right and left,and the follower is then brought down, which forces the apple throughthe knives, cutting it into slices, which drop below. The apple is notonly brought down, but each individual slice is forced through by thethin tongue of the follower, which rests above it.

Having thus described our invention, we do not claim broadly a series ofknives arranged in converging tiers, with a reciprocating follower abovethe knives; but

What we claim as new, and desire/to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an apple-slicer, the combination of the open-topped and open-endedhopper D, provided with knives b b, thefollower E, provided with slotsgg, and the four metallic guides in m mm at thet'our corners ot'thehopper for guiding and ceuteringthe follower, asherein shown anddescribed;

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CLARENCE DE PUY. EDWARD H. BUEGHARDT.

1 Witnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, J AOOB SPAHN.

The follower is made con-

